Antoni Chrusciel

Antoni Chrusciel (16 July 1895-30 November 1960) was a Brigadier-General of the Home Army of Poland during World War II.

Biography
Antoni Chrusciel was born on 16 July 1895 in Gniewczyna Lancucka, Austria-Hungary. He served with their army during World War I, but he joined most of the other soldiers in his unit in defecting to newly-independent Poland after it gained independence, and he helped in the defeat of the Soviet Union in the Polish-Soviet War. Chrusciel led a regiment during the first stages of World War II in 1939, and during the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany, Chrusciel was one of the commanders of the Home Army resistance organization. He was imprisoned after the failure of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, but he was liberated by the US Army at the end of the war and lived in Doylestown, Pennsylvania until his death in 1960.